Stock-car



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W. P. CRAIG. Stock Car. No. 233,329. Patented Oct, 19,1880.

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W. P. GEIAIEG,

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Patented Oct, 19, 1880.

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Inventm UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. CRAIG, OF NEW PORTAGE, OHIO.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,329, dated October 19, 1880. Application filed February 27, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WM. P. CRAIG, a citizen of the United States, residing at N ew Portage, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock-Oars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to that class of stockcars in which provision is made for feeding and watering the stock.

The invention more particularly relates to providing a stock-car with movable partitions carrying feed and water containing devices and adapted to be turned up out of the way to load or unload the car.

In the drawings illustrating my invention,

Figure l is a side elevation of a portion of a car embodying my invention. Fig. 21s a topplan view just beneath the roof, or with the roof removed. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of a divided or folding partition Fig. 4, a front view of a partition guide; Fig. 5, an edge view of the partition shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a detail in front elevation, showing a partition having a feed or water trough and a manger or hay-rack in its vertical or floor position and its horizontal or roof position. Fig. 7 is a detail in side elevation, showing the mode of holding the partition in its elevated horizontal or roof position. Fig. 8 is a front elevation, showing the folding partition in two positions, at bottom showing it extended and at top folded, such partitions being useful where high animals, as horses, are being transported. Fig. 9 is a side or end elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 8, withthe partition raised, and dotted lines showing itin the horizontal or roof position and Fig. 10 is perspective view of the feeding device.

Exteriorlythe car A may be constructed as usual, and inside, at suitable intervals, 1 place vertically strips B, arranged oppositely 011 the two sides of the car. These strips B may be grooved at b, or have extending up about midway of their height battens a, with a groove,

b, between them. Slots 0 are made in the said strips, which slots terminate in offsets d in cap pieces 6, preferably of metal. In the grooves b of opposite strips B are arranged partitions extending across the car. and said strips and partitions are sufficiently far apart to form compartments for animals of various sizes and kinds.

If the car is to be used for horses, I provide high partitions (3, Figs. 3, 5, 8, and 9, having a hinged or folding portion, 0. These partitions have gudgeons f, which extend into the slots 0 in the strips, and by means of these slotted and grooved strips the partitions may be raised and lowered in a given plane; hence such strips become guides for the partitions, and are hereinafter so designated. The partitions normally have their lower edge resting upon the car-floor; but when the car-floor is to be loaded or unloaded the partition must be removed. To this end the partition 0 may be raisedin any suitable manner untilits hinged portion 0 is out of the groove 12, when it folds down upon the lower portion. The raising is then continued until the gudgeons or pins f reach the ends of the slots 0, when the partition maybe suspended from said pins by pushing them into the offsets d,- or the partition may be swung 011 its pins in said offsets into the horizontal, and there held by a spring catch-hook or like device, g, (see Fig. 7,) in the manner indicated by dotted lines, Fig. 9.

Inasmuch as the battens a or groove b extend only about midway of the height of the guides or car, or to the top of the partitions, the lower edge of such partitions will clear the said groove when they are suspended from the offsets, and thus permit of their being swung up horizontally.

The animals are driven in one by one and a partition placed between them, so as to give each animal a separate compartment, and the animals are preferably arranged head to tail in such compartments, so that there may be no interference with adjacent feeding means. For small animals a single partition, 0, Fig. 6, may be used, of less height than those for tall animals.

The feeding devices I employ consist of a hay-rack, D, attached at opposite ends of adjacent partitions, and superposed hinged ba- 5 or troughs.

sin or trough E. (See Fig. 10.) Water is supplied to these basins from a tank or vessel, F, arranged in the roof of the car, and having pipes h leading therefrom to the several basins It is designed to obtain the water from an ordinary cistern, used to fill the tender, let into the tank, and distribute it therefrom to the troughs. The troughs are arranged at opposite ends of the adjacent partitions, and

10 are hinged so that the water or feed may be emptied out of them at the hind parts of the animals rather than at their heads.

When the partitions are turned up horizontally, as in Fig. 7, the manger D will extend 15 transversely across the compartments in convement reach of such animals.

Havingdescribed my invention, what I claim L A stock-car having adjustable partitions W. P. CRAIG.

Witnesses:

J N0. H. AUBLE, GEo. K. PARDEE. 

